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It’s a 25.5 percent increase from this time a year ago. “The company said on Thursday that about 40,000 of the new subscribers came from digital products like the cooking and crossword apps. The gains helped push the company’s total digital-only subscribers to roughly 2.8 million.”

“The Outline plans to use the financing to hire more ad sales representatives, developers and editorial staffers, Mr. Topolsky said. The company, which has 30 employees, plans to add six to 10 people by the end of the year. It recently hired Evan Gotlib, previously senior vice president of sales at LittleThings, to be its chief revenue officer.”

“If you launched groups with the expectation they would mitigate falls in news feed reach and traffic, you would be really disappointed groups won’t have saved you.”

“Obviously Konnikova had some advantages — she’s being coached by a legendary player, she has a PhD. in psychology, and poker is a purely mental game. But this is just about the best case scenario for a post-media pivot, and she didn’t even have to get laid off from her job to pull it off.”

“Our partner newsrooms are early on in their journey to making engagement an entire newsroom strategy. Many opt to get started with a series, and we’ve found that stories from those series punch far above their weight in performance compared to the other content newsrooms produce (both on their websites and social media).”

“Rather than attempt to cover hyperlocal news for all of Chicago, The Triibe focuses on culture and everyday life for black millennials.”